The 2001 Brisbane Sevens, officially the 2001 Brisbane International Sevens, was a cancelled international

rugby sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...

tournament, originally scheduled to be part of the second season of the

World Sevens Series The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for sponsorship reasons, is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World ...

in 2000-01. The

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(IRB) withdrew the World Series hosting rights in response to the Australian government's sporting sanctions against Fiji. The Australian federal government had refused to provide visas to the Fijian 7s squad following the Fiji military coup which had taken place in May 2000. The statement from the IRB in response said: The event had been planned to be held in

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on the weekend of 16–17 February 2001, but was cancelled. It would have been the 2nd edition of the Australian Sevens tournament but that had to wait for the 2002 Brisbane Sevens in the 2001-02 season.

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{{2000–01 World Sevens Series Australian Sevens Brisbane Sevens 2000–01 IRB Sevens World Series